Christian Treasury Proverbs 2:12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks fraudulent things; The tree frog acquires the colour of whatever it adheres to for a short time. If it be found on the oak, it is a brown colour; on the sycamore or cedar, he is of a whitish brown colour; but when found on the growing corn, he is sure to be green. Just so it is with young men. Their companions tell us what their characters are; if they associate with the vulgar, the licentious, and the profane, then their hearts are already stained with their guilt and shame, and they will themselves become alike vicious. Our moral and physical laws show how important it is to have proper associations of every kind, especially in youth. How dangerous it is to gaze on a picture or scene that pollutes the imagination or blunts the moral perceptions, or has a tendency to deaden a sense of our duty to God and man! (Christian Treasury.) Parallel Verses KJV: To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;WEB: to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things; |
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